Originally Posted by
SpringHeeledJack
These Apps would obviously provide the sought info. My question is how did the article link open my iTunes without asking me ? I'm pretty sure that in the preferences this is not allowed, as in I didn't tick the box to allow it, or any other connection attempts.
In much the same way as when you click on a word file, it opens Word, and when you click on a PDF, it opens a PDF reader. The iTunes links are associated with iTunes.
Technically speaking, the "reputable newspaper site" is doing things the old way. The new way is to use Apple Link Maker (
iTunes Link Maker) to generate a standard link "http" that will open in a web browser.
However, what the newspaper did was replace "http://" with "itms://". Your system as an association defined that says addresses that start "itms" are handled by iTunes. And hence you were presented with the content in itunes.